Ronga language

Ronga
Native toMozambique, South Africa
Native speakers
720,000 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3rng
Glottologrong1268
S.54[2]
Linguasphere99-AUT-dd
incl. varieties
99-AUT-dda...-dde
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Ronga (XiRonga; sometimes ShiRonga or GiRonga) is a Bantu language of the Tswa–Ronga branch spoken just south of Maputo in Mozambique. It extends a little into South Africa. It has about 650,000 speakers in Mozambique and a further 90,000 in South Africa, with dialects including Konde, Putru and Kalanga.

The Swiss philologist Henri-Alexandre Junod seems to have been the first linguist to have studied it, in the late 19th century.

  1. ^ Ronga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online